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GHURN.

No. 418,185. Y Patented Deo. 81, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OLIVER P. JACKSON, OF VICTOR, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGN-MENTS, TO HUGH CAMPBELL AND IVILLIAM H. I-I. DICKINSON, BOTI-I OFMISSOULA, MONTANA.

CHURN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,185, dated December31, 1889.

Application filed May 20, 1889. Serial No. 311,491, (No model.)V

To @ZZ wil/0772, it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER P. JACKSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Victor, in the county of Missoula and Territory 5 ofMontana, have invented a new and useful Churn, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to improvements in churns in which the churn isrotated and the Io churning done by gravitation 5 and the object of myimprovement is to provide a churn which will gat-her and work the milkout of theibutter, thus effecting a saving of time and labor and alsoimproving the quality of I5 the butter by working it more thoroughlythan can be doneby hand. I attain these objects by the mechanismillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a frontView of the churn with 2o the lid removed to show the position occupiedby the dasher. Fig. 2 is a side View; Fig. 3, a top view of the churn.Figs. 4 and 5 are detailed views of the dasher.

Similar letters refer to similar parts through- 2 5 out the severalviews.

The stand A is provided with the bearings a a, in which rest thetrunnions bb, which are secured to the churn B at the center of thesides and to one of which the crank C is 3o attached. The cast-ironbraces D D are provided with the projections or lugs e e, which engagewith the ends of the arch F, which serves to tightly close the lid orcover E by means of the screw d, which is provided with 3 5 thehand-wheel I-I and which passes through the center of said arch.

As the churn is rotated the dasher I changes alternately from theposition shown in the drawing, (see Fig. 1) to that shown by the dottedlines K, when its movement is 4o checked instantly by means of anysuitable stop placed inside the churn, and the cream is forced throughthe holes in the dasher by its own weight, assisted by the momentum itacquires in falling with the dasher. The 45 dasher I is provided at thecorners with the slides g g, which prevent it from tilting. Vhen thechurn has been operated suflifu ciently to break the cream, the granulesof butter pass freely through the holes in the 5o dasher until enough ofthem combine together in one compartment of the churn to form a mass ofbutter larger than the holes in' the dasher, when the roll of butter soformed collects all the balance of the parti- 55 cles, and by beatingagainst the walls of the compartment which contains it the milk is allworked out and the butter when taken from the churn is in a marketablecondition.

As the butter is liable to gather in either 6o end of the churn, Iprefer having the opening in the middle `of the churn, as then thebutter can readily be removed from either compartment.

What I claim as my invention, and desire 65 to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The rotating churn having at its central internal parts a looseperforated dasher I, provided with slides g at its corners, whereby itis prevented from tilting, but adapted to 7o slide back and forth in thechurn as it rotates, as set forth.

OLIVER P. JACKSON.

Witnesses:

FRANK STINGER, J. W. MCGREGOR.

